I have been designing websites for the last few years and now I have launched Irishpets.ie - We love our pets - Home This is a hobby that may actually earn me some money. I am not too technical, my only knowledge about HTML is how to copy and paste it!

The site was launched in May and I have over 7,000 visitors a month and many people love the site. I am looking for a more techinal opinion - good or bad.

Let me know what you think?

Thanks,

Bevin Hoffman

I like the idea, but I don't like the implementation

The code is not very clean and has over 370 errors:
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.irishpets.ie/ - W3C Markup Validator

which might explain why it loads so badly ie. you see the top and left bars long before the actual content loads

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Thanks for the feedback, as I mentioned I am not very familar with HTML, I use a web building wizard called www.webestore.com I looked at the link you supplied, should I delete all the errors in red from my HTML code to tidy it up?

my two minute review: (yes it'll be mostly critical things)

Don't get me wrong the site works .. these are just things I think would improve the site.

Your Logo is pixilated ... try taking your original image and saving it as a gif there are only two colours in use there.

I don't like your use of tables all over the site.

I don't like the menu on the left hand side ... it looks very dated to me and you can do a lot nicer stuff with CSS these days than that.

On the main page it feels like there is a lot of information .. it'd be nice to have a listing of these items ... jump to "dog fact of the day"

your search bar on the left has incorrect domainname .. "Search Irispets.ie" it also touches the border which doesn't look right to me ...

Your favicon is actually different to your main logo

I would have assumed your "want to chat" flash animation would be clickable ...

I'm getting an empty blue flash animation thats doing nothing further down the site.

The buttons / icons on the site don't have a uniform feel to them ..

Sent this site to a friend is different from the other buttons "search" and so on ...

Hmm... a lot of warnings are given for your code ... this could be the fault of webestore ...

you've got multiple heads and so on in your document .. no doctype declared .. and so on ..

Fixing the errors won't hurt

Hi, I have made a few changes but as I use web building software I cannot tidy up the code as highlighted. One change I am unsure about is my font size, I am using ariel 11 but is this too large.

Any comments welcome.

Regards,

Bevin

its very 90's, could be just me though, layout isnt to bad i dont really like the colours that much

I think your website is full of stolen articles, 6 of them from my site! I think you're hot linking images as well. You've got a bit of a nerve asking for a review of a site that is full of stolen articles and hot linked images.

egerbil.com

can you link to the articles in question in both cases ?

IrishPets.ie - We love our pets - Gerbil Behaviour
Gerbil Behaviour

this one maybe

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